<p>I’m in college already, but there’s very little luck involved. Don’t drive whle drunk and you won’t end up a DUI fatality. Don’t disturb the neighbors with noise and no one will call the cops on you. Don’t let the party spill out onto the lawn or litter onto the street etc. and passing cops won’t harass you. Worked perfectly for me.</p>
<p>…"Don’t drive whle drunk and you won’t end up a DUI fatality. "</p>
<p>ALSO, don’t get into a car with a drunk and you won’t end up a DUI fatality…</p>
<p>Don’t walk your dog on the street at 7:30 in the morning where kids are known to get drunk.</p>
<p>And while you’re drunk and your decision making is grossly impaired, make sure you only make good decisions.</p>
<p>Hmmm… what’s wrong with that sentence?</p>
<p>Remember, the first thing alcohol affects is your inhibitions. Things you would never do sober make perfect sense when under the influence.</p>
<p>When I read the article about the after prom accident, I just wanted to reach into the article and smack the girls that were stupid enough to get into the car with 10 beer boy. I can remember saying to my daughter when she would assure me that she would not ride with someone drinking and driving - imagine Jake Gyllenhaal pulls up and offers to give you a ride home - and he has a margarita in his hand. Tell me you wouldn’t get into the car with him.</p>
<p>The drivers don’t have to be drunk for tragedy to occur. I was recently near Wilmington, NC, and while I was there their local paper reported on an accident in which two high schoolers were killed after leaving a party. The driver was sober, everyone was seatbelted, and still two of the five people in the car were killed. Driving with a DD is definitely safer, but it isn’t an absolute guarantee of safety.</p>
<p>Driving in and of itself is a risk–there’s something like 42,000 fatalities on the roads each year. Not drinking and buckling up however reduces the chances greatly. If you can manage to not speed or talk on the phone, it looks even better. But the chance of getting T-boned by a drunk in an SUV is never 0…</p>
<p>Plenty of these girls are just as drunk as the guys- speaking of impaired decision-making. Many of the stories that are relayed on this forum all seem to be about boys, but I assure you that the girls are right in there. I know a few girls at my son’s school that I truly think have an addiction.</p>
<p>MOWC - you are absolutely right.</p>
<p>Piterbizon, you remind me of a poster whose name I don’t recall (I think it was Lucifer or something of that nature) who made exactly the same arguments that you make now. Two years later, in college, he was dead.</p>
<p>Anyone have a link to one of his threads to post here?</p>
<p>Very good point, Chedva. Wasn’t he a student at U VA?</p>
<p>Also be aware that whoever owns or rents the condo can be charged with providing a place for minors to consume alcohol.</p>
<p>I think he died at UVA but was a Cornell undergrad. One of his last posts before his death, from alcohol poisoning. </p>
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<p>Yes, Lucifer was a Cornell student who wrote extensively on CC about “responsible” drinking. He died of alcohol poisoning St Patrick’s weekend at UVA.</p>
<p>People are going to drink, regardless. Most people are fine-very few people actually die of alcohol poisoning each year, which is why it almost always makes the news when they do. As long as you aren’t insane about it, the worst thing that you’ll end up with is a bad headache and some nausea the next day. Telling college kids not to drink is pretty unreasonable-it is similar to state troopers telling people not to speed.</p>
<p>I remember when in my junior year our (Catholic) college administration came out with a “No kegs allowed in your dorm room” rule. </p>
<p>How things have changed.</p>
<p>The fraternities at my school were able to roll kegs into the stadium for football games. We would just pass the cups up and they would return full. Drum roll - that was at William and Mary - not exactly the party school of the century.</p>
<p>Ocean City Md and the Delaware shore points north of there on Rt 1 have a zero tolerance policy for underage drinking. The security staff at most condo complexes that have rental units for summer vacations most often have a zero tolerance for underage drinking. I have stated on other threads my views about teaching kids to be responsible drinkers including permitting one’s own kids to drink underage under very controlled and supervised circumstances and am hardly a “prude” about it. That being said, a group of h.s. students staying at a resort condo and having drinking parties is a recipe for disaster in so many ways. It is a bad idea for reasons of safety as well as the potential legal issues. There is so much to do in Ocean City and the surrounding areas, both day and night, that there is no reason to add drinking to your list of recreational activities.</p>
<p>“Piterbizon, you remind me of a poster whose name I don’t recall (I think it was Lucifer or something of that nature) who made exactly the same arguments that you make now. Two years later, in college, he was dead.”</p>
<p>Never been drunk personally. I don’t know my limits because I’ve never really pushed them, and in all likelihood won’t anytime soon. </p>
<p>The majority of people in this demographic drink. A fairly small amount (dozens? hundreds?) die each year from it. The denominator here would be a couple million.</p>
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“Telling college kids not to drink is pretty unreasonable-it is similar to state troopers telling people not to speed.”</p>
<p>Good analogy. The median speed on the highways here is something like 18 MPH over the speed limit.</p>
<p>“18 MPH over the speed limit” ?? Are you kidding?</p>
<p>No. The speed limit is 55. The median speed was 73, I believe. Makes sense. This is a wide open freeway with 3 lanes in each direction. It used to be narrower (hence the 55 PSL), but was expanded, and the speed limit never caught up. Now it’s a great soure of revenue via tickets.</p>